On 10/2/16 8:57 AM, Al Kossow wrote:
> Ted Nelson worked for them for a while.
>
>
http://hyperland.com/TNvita
1981-82: Chief designer of office software, Datapoint Corporation, San
Antonio, Texas. TN's "Vortext" design (December
1981) is adapted as Datapoin
On 10/2/16 10:15 AM, Jay West wrote:
>
> I have a new theory. No new machines are ever
> found, we all just keep trading ownership of them amongst ourselves,
> sometimes with the same machine coming back years later!
>
Thats been a joke at hamfests for decades :-)
On 10/2/16 10:11 AM, Brent Hilpert wrote:
> There's a Datapoint 1800 on ebay right now.
No one loves printers, or terminals. Just their keyboards.
I was offered to CHM before it went up on eBay. I couldn't justify
getting it because we just accepted a model 520 with disk subsystem.
Many working systems passed through Crisis Computer. They are still
in use in parts of the government, which is probably why it went for
what it did.
On 10/2/16
I'm working on documenting these supplies, since there seems to be almost
nothing on them on
the web of use. There is a list of what is on the 9 pin molex on the SM, but no
actual pinout.
Same for the 15 pin D on the MMA, but at least there are enough pictures around
to be able to
assume the sen
On 10/3/16 8:08 AM, Noel Chiappa wrote:
> What other 11/40 CPU options are there?
>
Stack Limit and RTC
On 10/3/16 10:37 AM, Michael Thompson wrote:
> Al,
>
> I have a MM65-E0506/115 that needs repair.
> This is also known as a DEC H7130C from a KS10.
> 5V@30A
> 5V@60A
> 12V@10A
> 15V@3A
> 5V@
> I see lots of companies that advertise repair services for these supplies,
> so the documentation must
On 10/3/16 10:50 AM, Al Kossow wrote:
> That reminds me, the PS sense pinout should be in the KS10 engineering
> drawings
>
it is, and I've added it to the lh_research stuff, but it's on barrier strips
since
it is a MM
weird that it has two AC inputs
I wonder if it'
the will probably be 68000
unisoft kernels i've used weren't 010 with the 451
i'll have to dig around for what bits of the 451 kernel i still
have around. unisoft kept the mmu parts pretty well isolated since
the did so many hw ports
On 10/3/16 5:53 PM, Ken Seefried wrote:
> I've got a half doz
On 10/4/16 8:02 AM, Shaun Halstead wrote:
>> I'd like to work to-wards scanning all of the library into a system.
>> Anybody know anything about fiche scanners.
>
>
> This is exactly what my company does (and my previous, now defunct,
> employer as well). I have dedicated microfiche and mic
If you look in the cctlk archives there was work done on this in the recent past
http://www.retrocmp.com/tools/pdp-11-diagnostic-database
seems to be a pointer to many sources
On 10/4/16 9:38 AM, Rod Smallwood wrote:
>
>
> On 04/10/2016 17:16, Al Kossow wrote:
>>
>> On 1
On 10/4/16 3:02 PM, Ken Seefried wrote:
> Dumb question...did the '451 have a mechanism to work around the
> instruction restart issue in the 68000?
no. the 68451 is a segmented mmu, so you wouldn't use it for demand
paging. the normal way you use it in unix is setting up segents for
text, dat
On 10/4/16 10:48 PM, Rod Smallwood wrote:
> I have been doing some searching on the web.
> There seem to be some Epson (Perfection range) that could scan fiche
>
How many lifetimes do you have allocated for the project?
On 10/5/16 2:41 AM, Mark Linimon wrote:
> Is there anyone on this list who has a VNEbus Ethernet adapter?
>
I have some VME ones
Any model you had in mind?
On 10/5/16 6:47 AM, emanuel stiebler wrote:
> Is there no "modern" format of TIFF or similar, which could save the whole
> microfiche as one picture?
>
There are very few imaging programs that can handle an image that large.
You run into this with scans of blueprints.
On 10/5/16 8:29 AM, Jon Elson wrote:
> There is a VME card by Excelan with an AUI
> connector on it. Perhaps the model is EXOS 202.
I have a couple as well. Figures I wouldn't have a manual for that
model. Finding a manual would be handy.
They had an ancient version of TCP/IP in ROM.
The firmwar
On 10/6/16 11:14 PM, Jason T wrote:
> I was also going to ask if anyone knew of any other examples of
> phonograph records used to store data.
Inner City Unit's "Spectrum Program" is mentioned on the Wikipedia page
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZX_Spectrum_software
I actually played it once o
On 10/6/16 11:14 PM, Jason T wrote:
> It was
> either Kilobaud of Interface Age that had them.
Interface Age
I have a couple that I just ran across again that I need to digitize
There was just a discussion about these on the MAME developers list.
oops, they aren't Intel
On 10/7/16 10:30 AM, Al Kossow wrote:
> wonder why all the interest.
> gold bugs, or do people realize there are i1103s on there?
>
> http://www.ebay.com/itm/262652558004
>
wonder why all the interest.
gold bugs, or do people realize there are i1103s on there?
http://www.ebay.com/itm/262652558004
Guess I should look memory boards are inside my TI 960 and 980
The 990 used dual-wide verisons of that board form factor and used 4K and
higher DRAMs
> They are MIL. Micro Systems International:
> https://en.wikichip.org/wiki/microsystems_international
>
> If someone are into repairing HP98x0A m
ouch!
this is about 2x what I thought they would go for
On 10/1/16 7:19 AM, Al Kossow wrote:
> http://www.ebay.com/itm/291894250804
>
eople
pay $1K for an NOS Ford part for their Cobra you could get at
a dealer for $10 in the 60's.
On 10/7/16 3:21 PM, Chuck Guzis wrote:
> On 10/07/2016 03:12 PM, Al Kossow wrote:
>> ouch!
>>
>> this is about 2x what I thought they would go for
>>
>> On
On 10/7/16 4:32 PM, j...@cimmeri.com wrote:
>
>
> how astonishingly retarded that they sold for that much.
nah.. maybe Alan in Soquel will list the ones he's been hoarding.
On 10/8/16 11:07 AM, Rob Jarratt wrote:
> I went ahead and replaced it. The drive spins up now, but sadly the drive
> doesn't actually work, after spinning up and making a few clunking noises,
> it spins down again. I suspect it is trying, and failing, to find track 0.
>
EXTREMELY common probl
And stuck Maxtor coaxial spindle motors (RK54) are no joy either.
On 10/8/16 11:27 AM, Al Kossow wrote:
>
>
> On 10/8/16 11:07 AM, Rob Jarratt wrote:
>
>> I went ahead and replaced it. The drive spins up now, but sadly the drive
>> doesn't actually work, after
On 10/8/16 2:17 PM, Chuck Guzis wrote:
> After we're all gone, what will future generations think of us? That we
> developed new hardware and software solely to play games?
>
Probably, given how many cycles are being given to saving every copy-protected
Apple II game, compared to a couple guys
I see a CW 4 and Discferret sitting on my bench, along with a Supercard Pro.
I've got a dead CW 3 and a working one ..somewhere that I wanted to do A/B
comparisons with.
Eric, I had been trying to find time to set up the diskferret, since that
was what you originally asked for, but I can more ea
"9-track tape emulator" brings up the usual suspects on G
they are ~10k dollar devices.
http://www.arraid.com/
et. al.
On 10/10/16 3:27 PM, Chuck Guzis wrote:
> On 10/10/2016 02:02 PM, Dave G4UGM wrote:
>
>> Do you have any links, I couldn't turn any up? Are they affordable?
>
>
> Only an e
http://www.computerhistory.org/collections/catalog/102743371
I was just wondering where that went.
On 10/10/16 3:46 PM, Ethan Dicks wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 10, 2016 at 6:34 PM, dwight wrote:
>> Surely someone can come up with a VideoBrain.
>
> I have heard of the VideoBrain, but I have never seen
You haven't actually decoded it, you've just captured flux changes.
How do you know what is there is actually correct?
I'm also puzzled when you refer to "IMD"
Dave Dunfield's utility?
That won't work on a Victor 9000 disk
On 10/10/16 4:12 PM, Santo Nucifora wrote:
> http://vintagecomputer.ca/do
brochure
http://www.ssd.gb.com/SCSIFlash/SCSIFlash-Tape/SCSIFlash-Tape%E2%84%A2.pdf
On 10/10/16 4:25 PM, Don North wrote:
>
> Something new:
> http://embedded-computing.com/news/launch-scsiflash-tape-replacement-obsolete-end-of-life-tape-drives/
> but no price listed.
> Not targeted at the clas
http://www.reactivedata.com/Products/SCSI_Bridge_Emulators_to_CF/imgs/SCSI(LRG).JPG
This looks like another (german) product.
Will keep digging.
On 10/10/16 4:49 PM, Al Kossow wrote:
> brochure
> http://www.ssd.gb.com/SCSIFlash/SCSIFlash-Tape/SCSIFlash-Tape%E2%84%A2.pdf
>
>
> O
On 10/10/16 2:43 AM, asw...@t-online.de wrote:
>> So it would plug into the SCSI bus and allow ".TAP" (and other tape formats)
>> stored on some kind of flash memory, say USB or SD card perhaps, to be read
>> by real hardware.
>>
>>
>>
>> Does this sound usefull to any one? Any other thoughts on
On 10/11/16 9:43 AM, Eric Christopherson wrote:
> Sark on IRC told me you can use pretty
> much any tube of the right size
Depending on the length of the HV lead, you may need side or
bottom anode button. VT100 is bottom, newer terminals tend to
have it on the side.
I've got an ADM3 in storage
https://grafeauction.proxibid.com/asp/catalog.asp?aid=117590&gl=288#288
someone needs to grab those 11/45's!
On 10/13/16 12:11 AM, Pontus Pihlgren wrote:
> What are those modern looking peripherals? Looks like storage, it might
> be the real find here.
>
They are Wilson Labs disk emulators.
Like I said, someone needs to get these.
the perennial '937' problem
just installed 6085 XDE 5.0 from floppies but there is no option in the
installer to load and setup to boot settimedove.boot from the copilot volume
someone must have figured this out
on the other hand, since none of the compilers or actual useful stuff is
installed
On 10/13/16 9:01 AM, Rick Bensene wrote:
> These are neat machines, and I hope that they end up in the hands of
> someone that can care for them rather than ending up scrap.
>
hope ht was one of us :-)
On 10/13/16 3:17 PM, Mike Ross wrote:
> Assuming you've installed this to an emulated disk... if you can chuck
> the disk image over to me there's a few things I could try... I have a
> 6085 running VP & Lisp images from Dave's MFM emulator.
>
I only have one emulator right now, and I've been
Oh, and a HUGE thank you to Dave for getting 6085 sector extraction working
this past week!
On 10/13/16 3:38 PM, Al Kossow wrote:
>
>
> On 10/13/16 3:17 PM, Mike Ross wrote:
>
>> Assuming you've installed this to an emulated disk... if you can chuck
>> the disk i
On 10/13/16 3:38 PM, Al Kossow wrote:
> Today's project is trying to get Smalltalk installed.
requirements 8k control store, 3.7mb memory and it turns out
you can't have anything higher than a rev C IOP board, I assume
it doesn't know how to deal with the changes made for the bigger
disks
On 10/11/16 10:14 AM, Al Kossow wrote:
> Depending on the length of the HV lead, you may need side or
> bottom anode button. VT100 is bottom, newer terminals tend to
> have it on the side.
>
Took a look this morning and the anode is on the top, but swapping tubes
will be a bit
On 10/13/16 3:17 PM, Mike Ross wrote:
> Assuming you've installed this to an emulated disk... if you can chuck
> the disk image over to me there's a few things I could try... I have a
> 6085 running VP & Lisp images from Dave's MFM emulator.
>
the way that the script works for viewpoint is it i
On 10/13/16 7:42 PM, Al Kossow wrote:
> from the VP install script:
>
> Request 6085 VP Standalone: Common Software
> Comment Installing Standalone Common Software...
> Online RD0
> Data User Standalone and Remote
> Data User Terminal Emulation Common Software
>
I have been given an lot of SEL software and documentation, along with a
simulator
Now, I need to get off my butt and put it all on line.
Thank you for saving the system, Bob.
On 10/13/16 8:34 PM, Bob Rosenbloom wrote:
> On 10/13/2016 9:01 AM, Rick Bensene wrote:
>>> I'm curious what the Systems
what I just posted on comp.sys.xerox
I probably should just email Don Woodward or Dave Curbow.
On 10/13/16 11:03 AM, Huge wrote:
> Has *no-one* implemented an XNS time-server on, say, Linux?
>
There are Unix implementations of XNS from way back, but as far as I know
no one has moved these
I can only think of one, the AED WINC-08 RL02 system, but that used 8" drives
Good luck finding one, and the matching interface card. I don't think Qualogy
Emulex or Dilog ever made MFM for Unibus. MFM controllers were mainly a QBus
market. I suppose some day I should make a list of all of the Unib
I may have scanned other versions, no time to look right now.
and.. people are STILL trying to find a good copy of the Sun Microsystems
68000 boot prom, as far as I know.
On 10/14/16 10:05 PM, Richard Loken wrote:
> the one above is the previous version to the manual I have. According
> to the
scanned.. no time to post-process right now
If someone REALLY needs this, LMK
For the couple of people that have been to my new
office, there is a 3ft high 4ft long pile of paper
in front of the scanner right now that I haven't had
time to even look at.
On 10/14/16 10:21 PM, Richard Loken wrote:
FYI
www.ebay.com/itm/112167073659
This guy was the second listing he's put up. I suspect he has more.
I tried the two sets he put up the first time, and they work fine on the 6085.
They are hard enough to find at that price, I thought I'd let people know.
He also has the Fujitsu MB8266A nibble-mo
On messftp/uploads/6085_IOP_Firmware.zip
I have been working on trying to get Smalltalk running on it, so I went through
and checked
all of my IOP boards for different revs of firmware. There are only two that I
found, the later
one added support for >80mb disks.
The 6085 has a 80186 instead of
oops.
anyway, just put it up on bitsavers/pdf/xerox/6085 as well
On 10/16/16 5:04 PM, Al Kossow wrote:
> On messftp/uploads/6085_IOP_Firmware.zip
>
> I have been working on trying to get Smalltalk running on it, so I went
> through and checked
> all of my IOP boards for di
There's one on eBay, don't know if I'd trust it.
www.ebay.com/itm/152238200965
They were sold with Intel MDS's
I've got one or two from a TI 990
They are HEAVY
They are basically IBM 5440 media.
The format is in the queue to read, along with about a dozen others of more
importance.
Be warned,
On 10/18/16 5:37 PM, Steven M Jones wrote:
> I think they're useful to folks who have drives that can use them, and
> they aren't nearly as fragile as QIC or helical scan drives (4mm, 8mm)
> of a similar age.
>
The drives, maybe, but the tape sheds like nuts.
On 10/19/16 10:29 AM, Antonio Carlini wrote:
> On 19/10/16 08:46, Mark Wickens wrote:
>> >From a preservation perspective the best option would be to list the tape
>> labels. I have a friend with an extensive backup collection not yet on
>> bitsavers who could identify if anything I'd unique. You
I have a couple of drives I would really like to recover the data from.
On one of the two I've tried so far, the lowest head in the stack is really
stuck on.
Has anyone successfully unstuck a head from this era. I've tried the obvious
things
(gentle rotation in both axis, heating the platters) bu
On 10/20/16 2:05 AM, jim stephens wrote:
> I actually years ago unstuck drives by removing them, hooking them to cables
> long enough to allow me to have access to
> them external to the system with power, and just holding them in the air and
> giving them a sharp twist around the axis
> of the
The two disks this morning went much better. I tried using a heat gun on the
outside of the hda and VERY
gently freed the heads and got the spindle to turn. Then I pulled the top board
and coaxed the spindle motor
back up to speed. The root disk read without errors, usr has a consistent 28.
The
On 10/20/16 1:25 PM, Jason Howe wrote:
> I'm actually trying to bring an ST251-1 back to life right now. It worked,
> then was intermitently not recongnized by
> the controller after being powered on for a while, now not recognized at all.
> When you apply power it runs through
> whatever st
There is 8089 support in MAME, if you want to try to simulate something
with an integrated debugger
On 10/20/16 11:53 PM, Eric Smith wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 24, 2015 at 8:51 PM, dwight wrote:
>
>>> From: space...@gmail.com
>>>
>>> Before I write my own, does anyone happen to have an assembler and/o
for anyone wanting to try David's MFM emulator in an HP MFM 7945 disk box, here
is the
format, determined from reading a Vertex V170 drive from one
--sectors 32,0 --heads 7 --cylinders 987 --header_crc 0x,0x1021,16,0
--data_crc 0x,0x140a0445,32,5 --format
WD_1006 --sector_length 256
the 7941 used a V130 so for that substitute --heads 3 for --heads 7
On 10/21/16 10:16 AM, Al Kossow wrote:
> for anyone wanting to try David's MFM emulator in an HP MFM 7945 disk box,
> here is the
> format, determined from reading a Vertex V170 drive from one
>
> --se
I suspect it's the head servo.
I've been trying to get a solid read out of the v170 I've been experimenting
with all morning.
It chugs along, recals, then a seek failure.
I'd also like to understand the failure mode of Maxtor positioners. I had a
2190 croak (literally)
as I was trying to read i
I'd trust the later documents. They went through a lot of pain in the 70's
pushing the limits of what the bus could do.
If it were me, I'd build the stuff on Eurocards with a cable running to a
Unibus paddle.
On 10/21/16 12:23 PM, Noel Chiappa wrote:
> > From: Paul Koning
>
> > 1976 Peri
is your copy better than the one at
http://maben.homeip.net/static/S100/vertex/disk/VERTEX%20V100%20Maintenance%20Manual.pdf
?
On 10/21/16 2:32 PM, Rik Bos wrote:
> The ones I have (except of cause the working) seem to find trk0 and generates
> a drive not ready after that point.
> I've done som
I also forgot that I found the schematics last year.
Up under /pdf/vertex
On 10/21/16 3:41 PM, Al Kossow wrote:
>
> is your copy better than the one at
> http://maben.homeip.net/static/S100/vertex/disk/VERTEX%20V100%20Maintenance%20Manual.pdf
> ?
>
> On 10/21/16 2:32 PM, Rik
On 10/21/16 2:32 PM, Rik Bos wrote:
> There seems to be a jumper configuration which places the drive in a test
> mode, I've seen it somewhere but can't find it online anymore.
>
http://stason.org/TULARC/pc/hard-drives-hdd/priam/V130-26MB-5-25-FH-MFM-ST506.html
anyone know of a not-mangled-i
sigh.. found a series of posts in comp.sys.perq and Tony and RD Davis (RIP)
were discussing this twenty years ago :-(
where did you find the information about the guard band pattern at the ends?
On 10/9/16 10:29 AM, shad wrote:
> Then try to insert some small pieces of paper over one limit (
micropolis 1325
--sectors 16,0 --heads 8 --cylinders 1024 --header_crc 0x,0x1021,16,0
--data_crc 0x,0x140a0445,32,5
--format WD_1006 --sector_length 512
40 meg disk in the system used a 1323, 4 heads instead of 8
also, did the Altos Xenix 3.2F distribution floppies ever surface.
It is installed on the disks, but the images I wrote would have to be scrubbed
of the user stuff on there.
On 10/22/16 11:55 AM, Al Kossow wrote:
> micropolis 1325
>
> --sectors 16,0 --heads 8 --cylinders 1024 --h
On 10/23/16 11:50 AM, shad wrote:
> The problem is that there aren't open drain bus transceivers, but the
> problem could be solved simply using input-only and output-only components,
> connecting two in parallel but opposite direction on bidirectional pins.
>
The reason for using the old
having half of this conversation not making it from cctech to cctalk is really
starting to piss me off
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On 10/23/16 2:59 PM, Al Kossow wrote:
>
> On 10/23/16 11:50 AM, shad
good job!
On 10/24/16 12:48 PM, Marco Rauhut wrote:
> As repl to my own post...
>
> The problem was the current adress register. One of three 74161 binary
> counters was bad. After replaceing it, RK8E
> Diskless Controlltest working fine
>
There are some new scans up now for 32/75 on bitsavers.org/pdf/sel and some
software
under bits/SEL
I'll be working on MPX documentation next
On 10/14/16 7:29 PM, Tony Aiuto wrote:
> Bob: I may have a lot of software for it, if I can find the tapes and they
> are still readable. I even got hol
apparently because no one knew about it
On 10/25/16 2:48 PM, Graham Toal wrote:
> I think he failed to sell it previously at 130 Euros
I've got this. will see about getting it on line
On 10/26/16 6:58 PM, Glen Slick wrote:
> 12044-90001 HDLC Direct Connect Interface Hardware Reference Manual
> (12044A for A/L-Series)
>
Both are uploaded along with a couple others that used the z80 card
The mirrors should have them in about an hour
On 10/26/16 6:58 PM, Glen Slick wrote:
> I don't see these manuals online at either bitsavers.org or hpmuseum.net.
>
> Does anyone have copies of them available?
>
> 12044-90001 HDLC
BFD
On 10/30/16 11:03 AM, william degnan wrote:
>> I see bitsavers has manual but not pmphlet.Also there is no color front
>> and back cover
V7 runs on an 11/34. It's pretty tight, but it will fit on two RK05s
as / and /usr. That was the first Unix machine I used at UW-Milw
circa 1978.
Mini-Unix (version of V6) ran on an 11 w/o an MMU
On 10/30/16 11:09 PM, Ian S. King wrote:
> I've run 6th Edition on an 11/34.
>
On 10/31/16 3:08 PM, Vincent Slyngstad wrote:
> Isn't there some weird crap in track 0 on DECmate RX01s
It is IBM 3740 table of contents information.
GA21-9182-5_Diskette_General_Information_Manual_Jul80.pdf for the details
On 10/31/16 10:20 PM, Sam O'nella wrote:
> How do you seal the newly made jacket?
It's not necessary
This is the same guy that "sold" an Alto a few months ago for an insane amt of
money.
On 11/1/16 5:31 PM, Glen Slick wrote:
> More reasons to stay away:
>
> http://www.vcfed.org/forum/showthread.php?29469-(not-mine)-Another-Altair-8800B-w-drive-on-feebay
>
I'd like to add them to bitsavers if you can scan them.
I just threw out most of the CAMAC stuff that I had. Weird Stuff should have
two crates that I dumped off yesterday.
I was going to use it for reading tapes, but it doesn't make sense given the
higher performace inexpensive A/Ds you
can g
On 11/3/16 8:51 AM, Rick Bensene wrote:
> Hello, all,
>
> Question of the day:
>
> Will an Emulex MT-02 SCSI->QIC tape controller work with a Wangtek 5150EQ
> (QIC-150) Tape Drive?
>
I don't think so. The MT-02 supported QIC-11 and 24 formats, and the 5150 uses
QIC-150, so I think
it's goin
On 11/3/16 8:51 AM, Rick Bensene wrote:
> I have a bunch of old (1980's) QIC-24 tapes written with the old 5099EQ
> drive that I want to look through and archive in a different form.
>
I would really suggest doing this on a more modern machine with a Tandberg Data
SCSI drive.
see TSS8_8.24_ManagersGuide
"on"
at the console with the operator logged on
On 11/5/16 5:53 AM, Rob Jarratt wrote:
> I have got TSS/8 running on SIMH (actually it is a ready-made image that I
> got for the PiDP8). I have set up SIMH to enable TTIX for a secondary line
> to connect another termi
let me see if I can get this scanned this morning
http://www.computerhistory.org/collections/catalog/102719961
you also REALLY want to get any docs and tapes/disks out of there
finding software is going to be extremely difficult
On 11/5/16 7:02 AM, Camiel Vanderhoeven wrote:
> - Does anyone know
found a picture of a later generation machine
http://dooki.com/supercomputers/intel/intel.ipsc860.4_i860_40mhz.gif
On 11/5/16 8:34 AM, Al Kossow wrote:
>
> never mind, that was just for diagnostics
>
> the srm is described further down. it's a 386 running Sys V
>
> it
never mind, that was just for diagnostics
the srm is described further down. it's a 386 running Sys V
it is likely to be either one of their 310 series multibus boxes with
a Wyse terminal, like the iPCS-2, which had a 286 or their 386 clone AT
box
On 11/5/16 8:29 AM, Al Kossow wrote:
&g
at 3:37 PM, Al Kossow wrote:
>> let me see if I can get this scanned this morning
>> http://www.computerhistory.org/collections/catalog/102719961
>
> That would be awesome!
>
>> you also REALLY want to get any docs and tapes/disks out of there
>> finding softwar
A scan I did this morning will be up on bitsavers by 13:00 PDT
On 11/5/16 9:36 AM, Dave Wade wrote:
> They said they were working on it..
>
>> -Original Message-
>> From: cctalk [mailto:cctalk-boun...@classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Keven
>> Miller
>> Sent: 05 November 2016 13:04
>> To: Gene
On 11/5/16 11:24 AM, Jason T wrote:
> I'm guessing
> it's far more due to IBM having never released anything close to
> technical documentation on the architecture
S/32 - 36 are fairly well documented. It's just non-trivial to do the work
and would require someone to reverse-engineer with a mach
oh, and FWIW the 'monitor' you need is a Twinax terminal.
They are a bit more comomon than coax ones and seem to be
less desirable.
On 11/5/16 12:07 PM, Al Kossow wrote:
>
>
> On 11/5/16 11:24 AM, Jason T wrote:
>> I'm guessing
>> it's far more due to IB
apparently, these are links only Chrome understands
they are pictures of intel cartridges
are the tapes physically still in tact?
On 11/5/16 8:46 AM, Plamen Mihaylov wrote:
> I have some Paragon tapes, which I didn't manage to recover fully:
> https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/k-ccRPWd1TCIGU5wMK
machine.
On 11/5/16 1:26 PM, Plamen Mihaylov wrote:
> AFAIR only 2 or 3 survived due to bad tape cartridge belt
>
> On Sat, Nov 5, 2016 at 7:06 PM, Al Kossow wrote:
>
>> apparently, these are links only Chrome understands
>> they are pictures of intel cartridges
>>
>
check out
http://mightyframe.blogspot.com/2015/08/qic-24-tape-data-block-format-decoding.html
he may be willing to try recovering what still exists on the tape
like I say, what is there is pretty important to recover.
On 11/5/16 1:57 PM, Plamen Mihaylov wrote:
> All other tapes are far beyond r
On 11/6/16 8:44 AM, et...@757.org wrote:
> The thing is, I don't remember it being a "mini" supercomputer at all. It had
> the same gold decor that your images show,
> but it was large! Big cabinets!
>
But smaller than the Crays of the era.
If it doesn't run on 400Hz, it's a 'mini' supercompu
On 11/6/16 9:18 AM, et...@757.org wrote:
> In my travels there is a guy named James who
> has/had a very nice Cray collection. Haven't talked to him in a few years
> though hope he is doing well. He had some
> of the 6000 pounders IIRC.
>
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